•••      Indigenous People have traditional land claims for 18-24 percent of the earth's land surface      •••      More than 11 percent of earth’s land mass is designated as protected      •••      Indigenous Stewardship could double protected land areas      •••      Indigenous territories overlap remaining biodiversity hotspots      •••      Indigenous territories span major conservation priorities      •••      Indigenous People inhabit over 85 percent of protected areas      •••
 
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  • Conservation Refugees - Mark Dowie
  • First Peoples Worldwide Research on Global Conservation Evictions
  • First Peoples Worldwide Reccomended Reading: Indigenous Evictions
  • The end of Forcible Displacements - Michael Cernea
  • Kenya: Two hundred Ogiek homeless and hungry - Survival International - April 12, 2005
  • Moronene peoples forced out of national park - Down to Earth no. 48 - February 2001
  • Enemies of Conservation - Mark Dowie - Summer 2006
  • Biodiversity Conservation versus Population Resettlement: Risks to Nature and Risks to People - Michael M. Cernea, Kai Schmidt-Soltau
  • Rangers By Birth - Will Hurd - June 15, 2006
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